Sneak Peek of Our New Magazine theme ‘LocalEdition’

We just finished the design process of our upcoming news magazine WordPress theme and we would like to get your feedback / suggestions on how this design can be improved. Feel free to be open about it, we would be grateful to hear the honest opinion.

(drums)……and we are calling it ‘LocalEdition’

NOTE: Click on the image for the larger preview.

We look forward to your thoughts and we will consider implementing your suggestions in this theme.

I would potentially like to see some ad unit boxes under the featured news (under the first new box), or flexible unit locations within the template (bit more than the news world theme). It would help publishers if this could be possible. I would suggest perhaps enabling a feature to present 3 columns news widget boxes (under the hottest world news).

The featured content below the menu and above the hotest news scroller. Is it possible to add a widget that is either for an Javascript Implementation (Such as Adsense) or perhaps for social media / email marketing? And have the ability for the webmaster to switch from a featured tile or a widget?

Hi Roland, I really appreciate your honest comment and i think ‘you know’ what you are talking about because you have experienced it, so what you bring to the table is really crucial for us.

I agree that default fonts don’t help in the design at all. In the above preview, we have used Roboto and Droid serif fonts for the design, but i am surprised (and maybe confused) to see that people are thinking of it as default fonts? Any ideas why?

Let’s imagine you have hired someone to create a design for you and they come up with this, then what would you tell them to change in the design? If you can be a bit specific then it would be great,

I have always love Magazine3 themes, I have bought two and the response have been really great! This new theme should be packed with features like built in user rating system, optional animations, unlimited sidebars, custom widgets, contact form with built in reCAPTCHA etc….and don’t forget to make it adsense ready!

And will the first four newsposts plus the stories on the hottest news from the world all appear on the on average screen size of a laptop and desktop without scrolling downwards. News site visitors nowadays want to see more stories at ago before they decide which to read. Hope if this has not been done, adjustment can be made for that. Thank u

Can it enable automatic video play on the home page once the website is visited or all all pages of the site.
And will it have a banner advert, and why are there no adspaces at the top homepage sidebars.
Nice theme though.

Onuora, mate. You stole my words. Yes, I love the themes, clean and crisp but the fonts arent the best. They really need to be worked on. I am sure others would agree. The font looks old school on one of the themes i bought (i bought two, second seems similar – bland)

Hey Reg, I really appreciate your honest feedback! We are still able to design great themes because of the customers like you!, who share their honest opinions about the theme so that we can improve the product quality.

We are using two Google fonts as base fonts. One is Roboto and other is Droid serif.

A fresh look. I found all themes of yours ‘similar’; this one’s a good change in design. I would suggest to add 4-5 news boxes (or a section like ‘Hottest from…’ added above) before footer. See if that can be done.

You mean that we should add 4-5 more news blocks and they will be above the footer, but will they be full width? or they will be in the content area along with the Sidebar? If you could clarify that, then it will really help me understand.